Knowledge base›Sources›David Konitzny (Peec AI)
Konitzny runs 500 brand-free prompts daily for 17 days under GPT-5.6 and is the first to systematically separate the domain from the URL level of fan-out restrictions. Result: domain restrictions dominate (91.9%) and recur - a hard core of 18.1% of domains returns near-daily. URL paths are rare (9.1%) and almost always one-offs. His reading: the domain choice is learned and stable in the model, the specific page is re-decided per run.
The persistence analysis delivers a measurement idea our tracker can serve daily: domain recurrence per question as its own metric. It also supports the thesis behind Share of fan-outs with domain restriction that the domain choice is made before retrieval - whoever is absent there is never searched in the first place.
Our five measurement days show the same picture in miniature: 86 domain parameters, all without a path; 25 unique domains, of which 28% are one-offs and a hard core of 9 domains (36%) appears on 4-5 of 5 days - openai.com, reuters.com and tagesschau.de on all five. Our core is proportionally larger than his (36% vs 18.1%), plausibly so: 26 frozen questions instead of 500 rotating prompts - the domain choice repeats per question. The core domains are established sources throughout. We do not see the 9.1% path share - conceivably an effect of the German prompt set or the sample size; noted as an open check.
| Claim | Status | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| 91.9% of domain-restricted fan-out queries target the bare domain, only 9.1% a URL path | confirmed | Even sharper in our data: 86 domain parameters across 5 measurement days (20-24 Aug, deduplicated per run), none with a path. German prompt set, smaller sample - we do not see his 9.1% path share. |
| 45% of domains appear only once, 18.1% form a hard core recurring near-daily | confirmed | Same pattern here: 25 unique domains in 5 days, 28% on one day only, 9 domains (36%) on 4-5 of 5 days - core: openai.com, reuters.com, tagesschau.de (all five days). |
| URL paths as targets are fleeting: 64.9% one-off, only 3.5% hard core | unverifiable | In our pipe calls the fourth parameter never carries a path; the URL level of his analysis does not occur in our data. |
| The domain is a stable, learned signal - the URL level is dynamic and re-decided per run | confirmed | Our per-question stable domain lists against daily-changing result lists (grouped-webpages) show the same split. |
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